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Winkler County Libraries
Winkler County
Libraries
History
| Wink Study Club | |
| 1937 - Wink Study Club began the project of founding a public library for Winkler county | |
| 1937 - November 10 club voted to establish a small public library as a nucleus for county organization (resolved to open with min of 200 books) | |
| 1940 - Wink Library was opened | |
| Funding | |
| Superintendent of WISD, Lee Johnson, enlisted support in securing books. About 125 books where donated to the library from various teachers and patrons within the school district. A fourth grade class presented the play "Tom Sawyer" and contributed $35.00 to buy children’s books under the direction of Mrs. Ball. J.A. Delorio gave the receipts from a motion picture showing at the Rex Theatre for magazine subscriptions. Sixty dollars was contributed by the Humble Recreation Center with 52 merchants donating prizes. The Delphian Club of Kermit was added to the project. On April 14 the club presented the project to the County Commissioners for review. | |
| County Commissioners' | |
| At the County Commissioners meeting Mrs. Lincoln Riley, Mrs. Cecil Chatman, Mrs. Dow Miller, Elizabeth Kayser, Eva Ball (all of wink), Sarah Slaughter and Mrs. Emmanuel (of Kermit), Presented the request for a public library. County Judge McElvaney, County commissioners J.A. Slaughter, Mr. Crowley and Mac Moore, County Clerk Floyd Ellis and Attorney V.S. Gray where all enthusiastic about the project and a small public library was opened in the courthouse on the second floor. | |
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| In 1940, a branch library was opened in Wink
inside the Wink City Hall, with Mrs. Ora Lee Shutes as Librarian,
leaving Mrs. Wassell till 1941 in the Kermit Library.
With the Cities now containing their own Library facilities and funds still flowing the libraries soon outgrew their spaces. Funds from the General Fund set by the commissioner's Court Beginning in 1994 were set aside for a new building in Kermit. The new 100,000 brick building was opened on September 19, 1948 on the corner of Poplar and Bryan street under the direction of Mrs. Fred Hard Wright. The same year a new building for the wink Library was built and opened. |
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The Winkler County Historical
Commission. (1984). Winkler County 1887-1984. |
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| EMAIL WEBMASTER 2009 Charlene Beauchamp | Winkler County logo designing Samantha Morrison |
